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Chainalysis raises $100 million

Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, today announced it secured a $100 million Series E financing led by Coatue, bringing its valuation to $4.2 billion.

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Ivno and CloudMargin to combine blockchain technology with collateral management

Ivno, the London-based financial markets Tokenization company, and CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced a new strategic partnership that leverages Ivno’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) and CloudMargin’s collateral management capabilities.

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Donut raises $2 million to bring DeFi mainstream

Donut, a mobile app to save and earn high yield with DeFi, today announced the closing of $2 million in a new funding round. Redalpine added to their commitment, bringing Donut’s total funding to date to $3.8 million.

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Visa and PayPal back $300m Blockchain Capital fund

Visa and PayPal have invested in the latest, $300 million, fund from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital.

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JPMorgan invests in HQLAx

Today, HQLAᵡ announced it has added J.P. Morgan as a strategic investor in its Series B funding round, joining existing investors BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Citigroup, and Deutsche Börse Group.

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Morgan Stanley co-leads $48m funding round for blockchain player Securitize

Digital asset securities firm Securitize has raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital.

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Mastercard blockchain to bring visibility to cattle supply chain in Zimbabwe

E-Livestock Global today launched a first-of-its kind solution powered by Mastercard’s blockchain-based Provenance solution, empowering Zimbabwean farmers to prove the origin and health records of their cattle, while reducing risks to buyers.

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Contour completes Series A+ fundraising with investment from leading trade banks

Digital trade finance network Contour has completed its Series A+ fundraising round, securing investment from leading regional and global trade banks as its technology continues to be deployed by banks, corporates and partners across the globe.

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Securrency appoints CCO and CTO

On the heels of its recent raise of $31 million in Series B funding this year, Securrency, Inc., a leading developer of institutional-grade blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology, announced the appointment of MonaLisa Raas Como as Chief Commercial Officer and Bill Ashlock as Chief Technology Officer.

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UOB to pilot digital bond offering on Marketnode

UOB has become the first bank in Singapore to run its latest bond offering using a distributed ledger platform developed by Singapore Exchange and Temasek.

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PayPal vets launch decentralised cross-border payment network

A pair of former PayPal executives has launched a decentralised global payments network to connect banks, merchants and payment providers to transact in digital currencies around the world.

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Contour launches domestic offering in Bangladesh

Contour has launched its first domestic offering in Bangladesh – a trade finance network specifically designed to offer SMEs greater access to trade finance in the country.

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Broadridge to execute first bilateral repo trades using smart contracts

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced the successful go-live of its transformative distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform.

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Aufort physical gold trading platform chooses Obyte for DLT integration

Obyte announced that online digital gold retail platform Aufort has launched using its Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) technology to increase transparency and reliability.

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Crypto firm Ledger hits $1.5bn valuation

Digital asset management player Ledger has hit a $1.5 billion valuation off the back of a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings.

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Solace to power Cobalt’s cloud-based financial data movement

Solace, the pioneers of real-time data movement, today announced that innovative FX and digital asset infrastructure provider, Cobalt, is using Solace PubSub+ Platform to power the next generation of their trading platform.

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Ripple presents a vision for federated sidechains on XRP Ledger

Over the last nine years, the XRP community has been committed to advancing the innovation and forward progress of the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to dramatically increase its decentralization, performance, and feature set.

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Citi invests in fractional fixed income platform BondEvalue

BondEvalue, a Singapore-based debt trading platform for the masses, has raised $6 million in its Series A round of fund raising, with MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia and Citigroup among the new investors

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Goldman Sachs joins $28 million round in Blockdaemon

Blockdaemon, the leading independent blockchain infrastructure platform powering 25 million registered users across the platforms they support, has announced that it has closed USD $28 million in its Series A funding round, led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from Goldman Sachs, BlockFi, Warburg Serres, Uphold, Voyager Digital Ltd., Illuminate Financial, and Hard Yaka.

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Tassat appoints David Koch as MD, sales & business development

Tassat Group Inc., a global provider of financial technologies and products for digital payments, today announced the appointment of David Koch as Managing Director, Sales & Business Development.